Drishti Of The Day Archived Today:

"A morning of a particular kind of quiet met me this week. I later learned it was the 75th Anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, not oddly by a bomb called 'Fat Man.' A matching silence, both within, and around me, absorbed the News, later that day, quoting the Mayor of Nagasaki stating poetically that he was similarly devastated at the lumbering pace that nations, even now, were moving at to abolish nuclear weapons. I thought, 'Why aren't major News channels talking about THAT? Amplifying, intensifying, or glorifying the quiet but comprehensively enlightened people, beliefs, and ideas that come out of Asia, when I need their company on this journey the most?' How do I get a stream of THAT to sing me lullabies, every night? Could it be that on the very same day, the wave of Asian golfers, namely out of Korea, who showed up maybe a decade after we knew there was at least one Asian athlete for SURE, became a 23-year-old Japanese-American, winning the PGA Championship? What strange, and beautiful, timing. Big Ups to Collin Morikawa. And, clearly, congratulations to the Empire of Japan for their vocalized, global call to make 'Fat Man''s a thing of the past, and I'll add to that the word 'reparations," because especially with nukes, paybacks are a bi*ch." -Amy Jin Schmelzer